Hollywood Gadfly
I try to go where the facts lead me, no matter what. I love movies and books, and am curious about how cultural trends make them better or worse.
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Hollywood, Feminized Part 3: The Cost of Speed
2021 was the first year two women were nominated for best director in the same year: Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell.
In the previous two parts of this series, I documented how major festival pipelines have been systematically corrected in...
Hollywood, Feminized Part 2: The Box Office
In part one of this series on the feminization of Hollywood, I wrote about how film festivals began a campaign of heavily favoring female filmmakers regardless of their much-lower submission numbers. The campaign began at Sundance in 2013 a...
Hollywood, Feminized Part 1: The Film Festivals
For over a decade, we've been told that women directors face systematic barriers in film. The solution, according to major festivals and institutions, is preferential selection: temporary corrective measures to build a pipeline and level th...
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